Our companionship has taught eight lessons since weve been here and last week our first investigator who was supposed to become our teacher after we were done teaching her came to talk to us and told us she was moving that day. I know it sounds silly but everyone in our district was super sad we all felt like we were best friends with her even though none of us had even talked to her in english. But we had spent several hours each day the past week and a half preparing short simple messages that didnt make sense, super simple testimonies, and tons of prayers. As she left she bore her testimony in ENGLISH it was so powerful and made us all almost cry hah-- she talked about making the most of our missions, how its our choice to let the Lord change us. It was inspiring and what I needed to hear in that moment. It made me so excited to think about the love Ill feel for an actual investigator I can share this gospel of happiness and peace with.
Sundays are a 'spiritually' exhausting day we begin by writing our talks for sacrament that morning then we watched Music and the Spoken ward, had a fantastic devotional by President and Sister Burgess who are incredible. Sister Burgess reminds me of mom she is so kind and makes time to talk to us a lot even though shes super busy (shes currently trying to memorize how to say Thank you in every language taught there-- its quite the feat). After the devotional we do a temple walk where we spend time with our branch presidency up next to the temple. We then have sacrament meeting and the spirit was again so strong as we sang the opening hymn in finnish, hungarian, albanian, indonesian, and english. Im sure it sounded terrible to anyone not singing but the spirit was too strong to notice it while we sang. Afterwards we had priesthood and a fantastic district discussion. Then we had choir practice where we sang He Sent his Son which was requested by the Brent Nielson of the seventy who gave a great talk tuesday night. Exhausting but a different kind of exhausting than the usual language days.
The rest of the week went well. It is obviously hard to get along with people 24/7 but I know that God hears prayers because he has answered so many of mine this week. Hungarian is complicated but I have held onto D&C 31:3 with my life and am exercising faith. I still love the MTC my district and most of my zone. Theyre great.
We had a great lesson monday we finally got one of our investigators to feel comfortable enough to say the closing prayer!! The spirit was there and probably felt it the strongest I have this entire two weeks here. We also got to practice steet contacting in hungarian in the snow yesterday so that was fun and super weird to have regular conversations in hungarian then quickly lead in to the gospel.
Ryan Eggett the choir director is amazing. Hes my favorite person here and has a story that gives meaning to every song we sing he is also super funny like Brian Regan which makes for a good break. Ive seen Ellis a ton this week I cant take pictures because I still dont have a charger for the camera but if youll send it Ill start sending some! I also saw President Facer Brother Dowling, Senora Petrie from third grade, and way too many other kids from high school hah.
I love you all a lot. I miss you but Im so grateful to represent Jesus Christ for 2 years. Ive been waiting for this my entire life and am trying to enjoy it as much as possible. I know Joseph Smith was a prophet of God that God knows and LOVES each one of us and is waiting anxiously to send us love and comfort which is so real. Ive felt it a lot this week.
Sok Seretettel,
Hughes Elder
P.S Favorite piece of advice from our Hun teachers this week "If it sounds weird you're saying it right."
also tell dominik hi. I hope he didnt show up on the porch in a box again i would be so sad to have missed that.
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